Teacher Training Workshop

HKU PISA ALDW Project · The University of Hong Kong · May–June 2026

Overview

This workshop prepares teachers to develop assessment tasks and scoring rubrics for the HKU PISA ALDW Project. Working through the ALDW framework, participants move from mapping competencies and learning objectives to determining what evidence a task should elicit, building scoring rubrics, and producing final tasks.

Preparation

Please review the PISA 2025 Learning in the Digital World sample items before Session 1

Sessions

Session 1 — Thursday, 28 May 2026

Time: 18:00–20:00 HKT · 12:00–14:00 Paris

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Audience: Teachers + HKU staff

Purpose: Familiarisation for both teachers and HKU staff.

Project introduction — brief overview presented by the HKU team.
Framework and learning progression — using interactive versions of the exemplar items and released LDW items.
Introduction to the customisers.

Session 2 — Saturday, 30 May 2026

Time: 13:00–17:00 HKT · 07:00–11:00 Paris

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Audience: HKU project team, with 2–3 lead teachers and the front-end developer

Purpose: Equip the team with the knowledge and tools needed to support teachers and to make high-level decisions about content, format, and related matters.

Customisers Q&A — ensuring staff can support teachers in the final session; a developer will join online.
Task types — detailed breakdown, including the distinction between complex and hard tasks.
Evidence and data requirements.
Scoring — demonstration using the customisers to create a complex task, and developing scoring rules.
Implications of task-type choices, scoring rules, and related decisions.
General Q&A and administrative preparation for Session 3 (e.g., wifi, teacher logins).

Session 3 — Saturday, 6 June 2026

Time: 13:00–17:00 HKT · 07:00–11:00 Paris

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Audience: All participants; HKU team to assist with task development and use of the customisers

Early Afternoon: Supported Task Development

Focus on simple- to medium-complexity task types (more complex tasks are best developed by lead teachers and HKU staff).

Discussions covering content considerations, including minimising reading load and construct-irrelevant variance.
Data, evidence, framework mapping, and item specifications.
Internal consistency and conventions.

Mid-Afternoon: Using the Customisers

Creation of tasks developed in the early afternoon — one in each customiser.

Protocols for naming and saving tasks, item specifications, and tracking created tasks (to be addressed by a HKU team member).

Late Afternoon

General Q&A.
Closing remarks from the HKU team.

For queries, please contact the HKU ALDW project team.